The Early Career VMSG Fieldwork Grant

 

At the July 2025 meeting of the VMSG Committee it was agreed to expand the previously established Henry Emeleus fieldwork award. This award was established in 2018, and named after Henry Emeleus (1930–2017), the internationally renowned igneous petrologist and field geologist.

We will retain this fieldwork award, and make it available to any Early Career Researcher (postgraduate student, postdoctoral researcher or non-permanent university lecturer) who is looking to undertake volcanic and magmatic fieldwork- with a single award of up to £750 available each calendar year. Where the proposed fieldwork focusses on the Paleogene North Atlantic Igneous Province, this will be deemed the Henry Emeleus fieldwork award.

The award must be spent on research fieldwork (transport, accommodation and/or field logistical support), related to igneous research.

 

To be eligible for the award applicants must be based in the UK or Ireland, and be either:

  • PhD student;
  • Postdoctoral researcher; or
  • Non-Permanent University lecturer.

 

Preference will be given to:

Applicants who have presented at VMSG conferences previously;

Members of one of the VMSG parent societies, the Mineralogical Society or Geological Society of London;

Researchers with limited fieldwork funds.

 

To apply:

Please fill in this application form, describing the rationale for the proposed fieldwork, the importance of this for your research goals, and how this fund would enable activities that otherwise would not be possible.

Additional papers/materials or incomplete applications will not be considered.

 

The VMSG committee intends to award up to one award annually but reserves the right to not issue an award in any given year.

 

Past winners:

2024: Jenn Marsh (Imperial College London)

2023: Jingle (David) Zhang (Lancaster)

2022: Emily Madoff (St Andrews)

2021: Steven Walker (Edge Hill)

2020: Rachael Baxter (Cambridge)

2019: Craig Magee (Leeds)